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A CLOSE LOOK AT THE DEFEAT 
OF DIRECT ACTION 

NOTABLE RECRUITS TO BRITISH 

LABOR PARTY 

OTTAWA, LONDON AND SCOTTISH LETTERS 

From Our Own Correspondents. 


OFFICIAL ORGAN, 
FIFTH SUNDAY 
MEETING ASSOCIATION 
OFCANADA 


MONTREAL, APRIL 24th, 1920 
Vol. 2, No. 17 

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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


April 24th, 1920 







April 24th, 1920 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


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Back To Basic Things 


(By George Pierce.) 


T HE week has resounded 
with the turbulences of in- 
dustrial conflict. There aie few 
people who comprehend the mean- 
ing, the deep significance, of this 
restless movement of the masses. 

It has become habitual to centre 
the mind upon the striking daily 
developments, while the causes 
seem pretty generally to be ignored. 

W>hen thousands of sober, indus- 
trious and intelligent men smash 
Ihe restraint imposed, the discip- 
line, of trades unionism to the ex- 
tent of violating their contracts, 
sacrificing their insurance benefits • 
and impoverishing themselves and 
thedr families, then it must be ad- 
mitted that a powerful actuating 
motive, an impelling cause, must 
exist. If this cause has precisely 
the same effect upon workers who 
are widely separated, who are ad- : 
herent to many different religious, 
political and social ways, then by 
a process of elimination, it is com- , 
paratively easy to isolate the cause. 

Since neither religion, politics 
nor nationality interferes with the 
cohesion of the turbulent mass 
movement, our attention becomes 
automatically directed to the eco- 
nomic side of the question. 

What is it, then, that masses to- 
gether thousands of men in common 
protest and in open combat with 
established laws, customs and the 
old voluntary discipline devised 
and accepted by trades unionists to 
govern the movement? 

There is no out-cry for limitation 
of profits, there is no campaign for 
a levy on capital wealth, there is 
no protest against taxation to pay \ 
the bills of the war, there is no 
political excitement, there are no 
religious wars, there is no racial 
conflict, there is no indication that j 
the masses are concertedly seeking 
to confiscate the riches of the 
wealthy. 

The simple, self-evident truth is, 
that the burden of living, the busi- 
ness of ife, is weighing so heavily 
upon the masses o* the people at 
exactly the same time, in precisely 
the same way, with the identical 
results that its effect cements the 
conditions into one great grief, in- 
to one great human agony, into one 
excruciating crucifixion. Misery 
is the adhesive pus that binds the ] 
stricken into a great and angry, 
wound — the strike. 

Nobody is thoughtfully respon- 
sible. The railroad officials did not 
invite it. With the Government it 
is an unwelcome guest, with the 
men an agony, with the women and 
the children a ghostly shadow, a 
nightmare of terrors; to all good 
citizens it is a great regret. 

Gompers said the other day that 
this was no time to rock the boat 
.and we quite agree. There are ma- 
ny in the boats who cannot swim 
the strong industrial tides. The 
great rank and file of the trades. 


union movement would suffer a 
terrible calamity if discipline were 
generally thrown to the winds and 
the movement disrupted, because 
the great mass of the workers can- 
not possibly attain the goal for 
which they have striven many years 
except by organization, and organ- 
ization implies direction and mo- 
mentum, and these can never be 
effective except through discipline. 

It is a time for clear, cool-head- 
ed, hard thinking. We must begin 
by recognizing the cause, and then 
all, the employer and the employee, 
the rich and the poor men, the 
church and the state, all must co- 
ordinate to remove the cause. Since 
the cessation of the war, officials 
of all groups have concerned them- 
selves too much with expediencies 
which would temper the effect. 
They have been afraid or unfit to 
deal with causes. 

We believe In going to the root 
of things. We have a fondness for 
fundamentals; that is why we are 
so firmly attached to the idea of a 
Tariff Board. Its principle is basic. 
It is essentially fundamental, it 
takes hold of the causes of the ta- 
riff issue. Politics and sentiment 
are detached from it. It is a machi- 
nery which can feed out fundament- 
al justice to all Canadians. We be- 
lieve the establishment of this 


board to be the foundation stone 
upon which we can build the future 
happiness of the Canadian people. 
We will confess we are not attempting 
to solve world problems. I f we put 
our >wn house in order, we will 
probably accomplish a great deal 
more than those who are intent on 
arranging the domestics of all 
neighborly nations. 

If the natural resources, the in- 
dustry, the agriculture, f the 
country in which we live Is to be 
developed, we will need to devise 
ways and means of doing it. Our 
neighbors will not arrange the mat- 



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ter for us. The industrial establish- 
ment we will begin of these natu- 
ral resources will necessarily be 
small and weak financially and in- 
dustrially. In the beginning they 
will need a great division of pro- 
tection to insure their success dur- 
ing this period of development. 
Practically all trades unions and 
all union leaders favor a practical 
protective tariff, adjusted by a 
Tariff Board to insure steady 
growth and development, so that 
the greatest number of Canadian 
workmen will be employed in the 
new industries. 

As expansion proceeds, it will be 
the function of the Tariff Board 
to regulate the tariff to special 
needs and to protect the consumer 
against extortion. This principle is 
fundamental, it is basic; if it were 
widely applied to make the delicate 
! adjustments necessary to a tran- 
quil relationship between brain 
and brawn, between employer and 
employee, between the producer 
and the consumer, between the 
state and the people, the gaping 
wound of industrial disturbances 
: could be effectively healed. 

The business of living is grim 
business. Cool heads and warm 
hearts, — these are the needs of the 
hour. 

Fashion Note 

A smile is cooler in summer and 
warmer in winter than a frown. — 

Yonkers Statesman. 


SUPERIOR MAN 



T HE ‘ ‘ paramount issue ? ’ 

in this country is 
not politics nor policies, 
but food and fuel, clothes 
and houses. These are 
the four foundation- 
stones on which our na- 
tional life must rest. You 
will search the speeches of 
candidates and the pro- 


grammes of parties in vain 
for any mention of these. 
They all guarantee to pro- 
duce new laws, but none 
of them promises to install 
a system that will abolish 
the annual anxiety about 
coal; none of them de- 
scends to so simple a task 
as the provision of enough 


houses for the people. It 
would be an indication 
that common sense had 
broken into politics, if 
some of these pressing 
questions were promised 
the attention of the na- 
tional government. 

Henry Ford. 


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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


April 24th, 1920 


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(By COLIN McKAY.) 

• ‘ How would you deal with the 
profiteers?” asked the heckler. 

“ The only profiteer I know is the 
Government which takes our excess 
profits, ’ ’ answered Allan Schofield, 
candidate for Mayor of St. John, N. 
B. 

The Board of Commerce has not 
discovered many profiteers. And 
from the point of view of the busi- 
ness man, the manufacturer or trad- 
er is not more of a profiteer than 
the worker who demands high wag- 
es. What we are suffering from is 
really a speeding up of the whole 
system of profit-making. Competi- 
tion is no longer operative in the 
sense of the old political economy; it 
does not tend to reduce prices to the 
lowest level. Young men who would 
normally have established business- 
es went to war for four or five 
years, and now “the first cost of set- 
ing up a business is prohibitive for 
young men of small resources. More- 
over, during the last seven years 
all businesses in the country, manu- 
facturing, wholesale and retail, have 
formed associations which preach the 
new doctrine that co-operation is the 
life of business. Anti-trust and com- 
bine legislation has become a dead 
letter. 

Most business men freely admit 
that they are taking larger profits; 
they plead in defence higher expens- 
es and greater risks — principally the 
greater risks and uncertainty as to 
the future. They say they are just- 
ified in taking good profits while 
the taking is good in order to be in a 
position to carry on when hard times 
arrive. And the argument would 
have a certain validity if they put 
their large profits in essential busi- 
nesses, or in an insurance fund 
against hard times. But the fact is 
the profit takers have thrown bil- 
lions into speculative ventures and 
wild-cat schemes that add little or 
nothing to the production of essen- 
tial wealth. And the classes spend 
fortunes on automobiles and luxur- 
ies, while the masses in our cities 
cannot secure decent houses to live 
in at reasonable rents. This diver- 
sion of the surplus wealth of the 
nation to the gratification of the 
pleasures and vanities of the classes 
is the thing that is provoking anger 
and discontent among the masses. 

The worker is urged to increase 
production, yet while production is 
increasing he is confronted with the 
fact that prices always advance be- 
fore wages, and at the same time he 
is warned that the increased produc- 
tion will lead to over-production and 
a period of business depression, and 
scarcity of employment. It is an un- 
inviting prospect that is held out to 
him. While he is helping to increase 
production he must not expect any 
particular benefits because the busi- 
ness men must have their big profit 
to fortify themselves against the hard 
times they believe to be ahead, and 


when the goal of greater production 
is reached, his case will be more) 
hopeless than ever. 

In Britain, where the need of in- 
creased production is obvious, big em 
ployers are recognizing that it is un- 
reasonable to expect the workers to 
show any real interest in the cam- 
paign for greater production unless 
they are guaranteed against the dan- 
gers of employment which attend 
periods of over-production. And Bri 
tish Labor leaders have made it 
pretty clear that the adoption of a 
system of payment by results, on 
which some of the big unions are now 
voting, will bo conditional on the 
adoption of a system of insurance 
against unemployment. Many of the 
big British captains of industry have 
admitted that labor’s demand for 
insurance against unemployment is a 
legitimate corollary of the demand 
that they put forth their best efforts 
to increase production. Ontliis con- 
| tinent employers are beginning to 
complain that labor is showing an 
increasing tendency towards the ca- 
canny policy; they have need to con- 
sider the implications of the view 
that ca-canny is not a sign of do- 
pravity, but labor’s instinctive me- 
thod of delaying the speeding up of 
production and the hard times which 
follow overproduction. Canadian bu- 
! siness men insist on their right to 
take large profits now as a means of 
insurance against possible business 
depression in the future; and how 
can they expect the loyal co-opera- 
tion of their workers unless they 
show an interest in the development 


of a system which will insure labor 
against the evils of unemployment, 
which, by their own logic, is a pos- 
I sibility of the future. 

Colin McKay. 


Free Speech Offsetting 
British Extremists, 

Said Tom Moore 


(Ottawa Citizen.) 

Bolshevism is solwly but surely dy- 
ing in England. Free speech is kill- 
ing it. The old country labor man 
is learning the unsoundness of the 
doctrine, not from those who seek 
to discredit the movement, but from 
the radicals themselves. Labor is be- 
coming disgusted with the Reds and 
is showing that disgust by repudiat- 
ing the movement. 

So states Tom Moore, president of 
the Trades and Labor Congress, Ca- 
nada’s labor representative on the 
International Labor Congress held 
in England under the auspices of the 
League of Nations during the past 
few weeks, who returned to Ottawa 
last night. Mr. Moore when seen by 
The Citizen had just returned and 
as yet had not prepared any re- 
port. The statements he made were 
merely in the nature of a conversa- 
tion, and, as he said, he has not yet 
had time to collect his thoughts and 
discuss the events with the coheren- 
cy he would like to. lie just gave 


the outstanding impressions obtain- 
ed while in Europe attending the 
meetings. 

Shock an Outsider. 

Bolshevist soap box orators abound 
in Hyde Park, he said, and to a 
Canadian w r ho has followed the Win- 
nipeg trial come in the nature of a 
shock. Soviets for the British are 
openly advocated. Literature is open- 
ly sold on the streets which, if 
found in the possesion of a person 
living in this country, would mean 
a term of imprisonment. If the agit- 
ators confine themselves to speech 
they are in no danger of interfer- 
ence, but any attempt at revolu- 
tionary action is quickly nipped in 
the bud. He cited a publication 
edited by Sylvia Pankhurst w’hich 
advocates i 1 revolutionary interna- 
tional socialism, the ending of capi- 
talism and parliaments and the sub- 
stitution of the workers’ republics”. 
This is sold wide-spread in London, 
and causes little or no comment. Mr. 
Moore intimated there might be a 
little lesson in this for the Dominion. 

Change Living Standard. 

The whole standard of living 
among the labor classes of Britain 
has changed, he asserted. Wages are 
on a par with those of Canada and 
the cost of living is about the same. 
The idea prevalent among Cana- 
dians and Americans that Europe, 
so far as labor conditions are con- 
cerned, is away behind America, is 
erroneous, and the people on this 
side will realize this with a gasp in 
the near future. Europe is rapidly 
catching up so far as wages and 
working conditions are concerned 
and is far ahead in many social mat- 
ters. British workers are not Bol- 
shevists, but are undoubtedly rapidly 
moving toward state capital and con- 
trol, especially in the key industries. 

Farm Workers Organize. 

One of the most interesting fea- 
tures in the labor circles in England 
is the new farm workers’ organiza- 
tion which has a membership of 300,- 
000. The members have secured a 
46-hour week with extra pay for 
overtime. Not only the workers but 
the farmers appear to be satisfied 
with the innovation. 

“The international labor office”, 
stated Mr. Moore, “is going to play 
a most important part in the social 
progress of the workers throughout 
the .entire world. The initial ma- 
chinery has been completed. The 
possibilities are the permanent build- 
ing will be in Geneva. This will be 
decided by a plebiscite of the Swiss 
government to be taken on the 17th 
of this month.” 

Canada Away Behnd. 

The fact that Canada is now only 
passing legislation giving the work- 
er the right to organize when told 
at a meeting of the congress amazed 
the European delegates, and, added 
Mr. Moore, even made the Japanese 
representative broadly grin, and re- 
mark that Japan and Canada are on 
a level in that regard, for Japan is 
now passing similar legislation. 



April 24th, 1920 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


Pago 5 


Third Parties in 

Industrial Disputes 


(New York Nation.) 


The objection of the railway un- 
ions to the inclusion of “represen- 
tatives of the public” in the adjust- 
ment board provided for by the 
Esch-Cunwnins act has just been giv- 
en point by the agreement of the i 
representatives of the operators and ! 
of the public on the President ’& Coal 
Commission, in opposition to Mr. 
White of the Miners. It is easy for 1 
anti-labor commentators to interpret j 
this objection, now general among 
the unions, as evidence of a parochial 
spirit which cares for nothing but 
wage advances, no matter what the 
expense to the consumer. No one 
is louder in his expression of solici- 
tude for the public in these circum- 
stances than the employer himself, 
who makes use of the consumer’s in- 
terest to condemn strikes in general, 
or, when a wage increased is asked, 
to announce that it can be granted 
only at the cost of higher prices. We 
shall miss an opportunity for valu- 
able analysis of the industrial prob- 
lem, however, if wo accept uncritic- 
allythe hostile estimates of labor’s 
reasons for fearing the representa- 
tives of the public on boards of con- 
ciliation and arbitration. In any such 
board, the representatives of the em- 
ployer and those of the employee not 
only stand for certain groups of peo- 
ple with announced aims. There is 
nothing hazy about the bases of their 
action; the representatives come to- 
gether to negotiate about issues as 
concrete as are the issues between 
any seller and any buyer. Since they 
are likely to disagree, a third party 
injected into their counsels natural- 
ly holds the balance of power. It 
becomes, therefore, of supreme im- 
portance, especially in bargains di- 
rectly affecting the daily bread of 
hundreds of thousands of working- 
men and the prosperity of many bu- 
siness men concerned, who that party 
is and what leanings he is likely to 
have. 

‘We will furnish you with a repre- 
sentative of the public”, says the 
government. * c Very well”, answers 
labor, “but what do you mean by 
the public. Do you mean tho same 
thing that you meant when you ap- 
pointed Judge Gary and Mr. Rocke- 
feller as representatives of the pub- 
lic in the Industrial Conference. Are 
you going to give us another Palmer 
or Burleson? Where is the public? Is 
it to be found among the constituen- 
cy of the New York Times? Is it the 
same privileged group that the news- 
papers talk about when they say 
that the public demands that all 
strikes cease and that strike leaders 
be thrown into jail? We represent a 
considerable public ourselves. We 
know what the working people 
want, and they make up a large 
proportion of the population. We 
prefer to fight the issue out on our 
own lines, as do buyers and sellers 


of real estate, or wheat, or anything 
else of just as much importance to 
the public as the work of our hands, 
and of less importance to lits prop- 
rietor.” 

Before it can be said that the pub- 
lic has an interest entitling it to rep- 
resentation on adjustment boards, 
one must be a little clearer about 
what he means by the public, what 
the public interest is, and how that 
interest can be so organized that its 
representative may really be respon- 


sible to some visible constituency. 
Do we want the third representative 
of the third party to express the po- 
lice powers of the state? Do we ex- 
pect him to speak for all employers 
and all employees except those dir- 
ectly concerned? Should he care for 
the interests of that indeterminate 
group of persons who are neither em- 
ployers nor employees? Should he be 
a representative of agriculture, as 
opposed to machine industry in gen- 
eral? Or should he see that the p.e- 
j culiar interests of the people as con- 
| sumers are conserved ? These func- 
j tions differ from each other, and 
: they have different implications. 

. If, for instance, the decisive fac- 
I tor is to be the police power, it is 
highly undesirable to exercise that 
! power without first determining in 



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some detail its function and limits 
in industrial relations. If tho state 
is to have a deciding voice in fix- 
ing wages and hours, it should use 
it according to principles framed for 
the general welfare. Must it not gua- 
rantee to the workers certain mini- 
ma? Must not business bo forced 
to bear the burden of these minima, 
no matter what readjustments they 
involve? And if the minimum is 
not to become a maximum, some 
standard of return on investment 
will have to be established in order 
to show how large an increase labor 
may justly demand. These and a 
hundred other questions, of no small 
complexity, need far more considera- 
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before the power of the state can 
wisely be applied in the matter. 

:o: 

CHEERFUL CHARLIE 


Charles M. Schwab tells us to 
laugh at present-day troubles, so 
let’s take our cue from Charlie 
Schwab, and join the chuckling, 
laughing mob — 

Ha! Ila! Bread’s up another cent; 
Ho! Ho! The landlord’s raised the 

rent; 

II ee! Hoe! We’ll soon be in a tent. 
Ha Ha! Haw Haw! Hee Hee 
Our coal’s to cost a fearful price. 
Ha! Ha! 

We’ll pay a w^hole lot more for ice. 
Haw! Haw! 

And higher taxes — ain’t that nice? 
Hee! Hee! 

Now don’t say things will cost still 

more, 

(We got the giggles once before) 
We’d have hysterics — kick the 

floor — 

Tee, hee! Har Har! WOW WOW! 

— N. H. in the Brooklyn Eagle. 

:o: 

—Chug-Chug! B-r! br-r-1 Honk! 
Honk! Gilligillug-gilligillug! 

iThe pedestrian paused at the in- 
tersection of two busy cross streets. 

He looked about. A motor-car 
was rushing at him from one direc- 
tion, a moter-cycle from another, a 
steam truck was coming from be- 
hind, and a taxicab w r as speedily 
approaching. 

Zip-zip! Zing-glug! 

He looked up, and saw directly 
above him an air-ship in rapid 
descent. 

There w r as but one chance. He 
w*as standing upon a manhole cov- 
er. Quickly seizing it, he lifted the 
lid and jumped into the hole just 
in time to be run over by an under- 
ground train. — London Tit-Bits. 

:o: 

SPECIAL OCCASION 
Boxjcar Harry — “Beg pardon, 
ma’am, but do you happen to have 
some pic or cake that you could 
spare an unfortunate w r anderer?” 

Lady of the House — “No, I’m 
afraid not. Wouldn’t some bread 
and butter do?” 

Boxcar Harry — “As a general 
rule it would, ma’am; but, you see, 
thi9 is my birthday.” — Le Pele 
Mdle (Paris). 


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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


April 24th, 1920 


I OUR SCOTTISH LETTER 

v< 

(From our own correspondent) 


Glasgow, March 27. 

For some time the public have 
been antieipateing an early all- 
around decrease in tailoring costs. 
The general impression has been, 
of course, that prices were 
coming down, but it would appear 
that any such impression has been 
based on much too optimistic a foun- 
dation. There will, of course, be com- 
paratively cheap suits and overcoats 
in the market, but on the other hand 
prices will be higher in certain di- 
rections. During and after April, tai- 
lors are to be paid a penny an hour 
extra, and part-time workers are to 
be paid about 8 per cent, extra on 
present rates. In answer to the 
question “How much will that 
mean on a suit of clothes?” I was 
informed by a city tailor that the 
increase would probably be one of 
from ten to fifteen shillings per suit, 
and about eight shillings on an over- 
coat. The tailor explained the rea- 
sons for the present high prices of 
cloth. “The Government put up wool 
for public auction, and we have got 
to bid against foreign buyers, who 
will pay almost any sum for the 
material. Allthe neutrals made money 
while we wer at war, consequently 
they do mind raising prices against 


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us home buyers in the wool market. 

( We tailors have been accused of 
profiteering, but we are not by any 
means to blame for the high rates. 
We have got to pay the soaring pric- 
es for cloth and labor. The trade 
estimate that the Government has 
cleared over sixty-millions out of 
wool, and that sum is being daily 
added to”. “Do I think that the 
high prices will continue?” he said, 
“Well, that’s rather a difficult 
question to answer. The majority ! 
of tailors in the city have supplies 
sufficient to last them for about 
eighteen months, and should there 
be a slump in wool, well ’ ’ — he 
shrugged his shoulders, ‘‘the Bank- 
ruptcy Court would be busy. But 
I’ve got my own views on the mat- 
ter. I think that public agitation 
will force the Government to step 
in and do something in the long run 
to reduce prices. I’ve got an idea 
that State will say to the manufactu- 
rer, Now, here’s wool. Take half of 
it and manufacture it for the home 
trade at our fixed price, and the 
other fifty per cent, you may soli to 
foreign buyers ar your own price. 
Something of that kind is bound to 
happen.” It would be a fine thing 
if that belief should prove prophet- 
ic. Let us hope it may be. 

Home Rule for Scotland 

The text of the Government of 
Scotland Bill has now been issued. In 
pn explanatory memorandum it is 
stated that the Bill represents a fur- 
ther instalment of the policy of de- 1 
volution initiated by the Govern- j 
ment of Ireland Act (1914). It pro- 
vides for the establishment in Scot- 
land of a single Chamber Par- 
liament, subordinate to the Imperial 
Parliament and consiting of 148 1 
members representing the existing 
constituencies and returned bv .he 
parliamentary electors, with the ad- . 
dit ion of peers. The representation 
of Scotland in the Common House 
of the Parliament of the United 
Kingdom will continue as at present 
until separate provision is made for! 
devolution in England and Wales, 
then the representation of the com- ! 

. ponent parts of Great Britain in the 
Parliament of the United Kingdom 
will fail to be reconsidered and re- 
adjusted. The powers of the Scots 
Parliament include all those confer- 
red on the Irish Parliament in the ! 
Government of Ireland Act, 3914, ex- 
cept the control to vary customs and 
the excise, but with the addition of ! 
the administration of Old Age Pen ! 
sions, National Insurance and Labor 
Exchanges. The executive power will 
continue vested in His Majesty the j 
King, who will be represented in 1 
Scotland by a Lord High Commis- 
sioner. The administration will be 
_ carried on by the Lord High Com 
4* missioner advised by an executive of 
* a Scottish Privy Council. The power I 



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tho financial provisions. The Judi- 
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is substituted for the House of Lords 
as the final court of appeal, and all 
constitutional questions wjll be de- 
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44- Hours Week. 

Referring t-o the campaign to se- 
cure a 44-hours week, Mr. John Hill, 
general secretary of the Boilermak- 
ers' Society, suggests cutting a bit 
off the week, say Saturday. He ad- 
mits that the adjustment of wages 
■ would not be so simjple.Strenuous ef- 
forts are being made to secure sup- 
port for the Draft Forty-four Hours 
Bill which was circulated by the 
trades Union Congress. On May Day 
at the Labor Demonstrations, which 
are expected to take place all over 
the country, this question is to be 
among the subjects advocated. So 
far as the shipbuilding and engineer- 
ing industries are concerned a joint 
committee of the employers and the 
Unions was set up some time ago to 
forty-four and other matters. The 
Unions have appointed their repre- 
sentatives, but they complain that 
the employers have not yet appoint- 
ed the six from their side, and that 
the whole matter i9 thus held up. 


For the purpose of organizing the 
workers in the grocery and provision 
trades (wholesale and retail) a meet- 
ing was held in Glasgow this week 
of the National Union of Shop As- 
sistants, Warehousemen, and Clerks. 
Increased support was asked for the 
demands of a minimum scale of wag- 
es. In regard to an improvement of 
working conditions, a demand is to 
be made for a 44-hours week and a 
half-holiday on Saturdays in place of 
the present one in the mid-week. 
Under the new minimum scale of 
wages it is proposed that these 
should range from 29s for assistants 
of 16 years of age to £4 10s. at 25 
years. 

Delegates from Ayr, Edinburgh, 
Dundee, Aberdeen, Paisley, and Fal- 
kirk, attended a meeting in Glas* 
gow this week of Scottish hairdress- 
ers. A scale of wages to be demand- 
ed for various classes of employees 
was approved — <the minimum rate to 
be £4. 

First in Scotland. 

Renfrew has the honor of having 
led the way so far as housing is con- 
cerned, for it is the first Local Au- 
thority to have new houses ready for 
occupancy under the State-aided 
scheme. The scheme, which has al- 
ready been described, comprises a 
total of 184 houses, which are to cost 
about £160,000, and ten houses are 
ready for occupancy. It is hoped to 
build something like 530 houses. The 
first instalment has not been accom- 
plished without many dificulties, but 
as Provost Ferguson puts it, they had 
put a stout heart to a “stcy brae.” 

James Gibson. 



April 24th, 1920 


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The Railroad 
Labor Board 


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(Editorial in Christian Science 
Monitor.) 

An analysis of the conditions 
which have made the present strike 
of railroad employees in the United 
States possible might, perhaps, cause 1 
some doubt as to whether the ap- 
pointment by President Wilson of 
the Railroad Labor Board, if made 
immediately after the enactment of 
the law authorizing the creation of 
such a board, would have prevented * 
the interruption of transportation 
which Congress sought to render 
impossible. 

There seems to be no good reason 
for discrediting the statement given 
out by officials of the railroad bro 
therhoods and the American Fed 
(‘ration of Labor, that the strike of 
railway employees is entirely unau- 
thorized by the affiliated labor 
unions. There is, on the other hand, j 
persistent reiteration of the declar- 
ation that the so-called “outlaw” 
strike is the result of agitation by 
members of recognized radical 
groups within and without the union 
labor organizations. The Department 
of Justice of the United States 
claims to have in its possesion evid- 
ence that the effort to tie up trans- 
portation lines in all parts of the 
country is the initial step in a plan j 
to induce a union- wide strike in | 
practically all industries, the ultim- ; 
ate purpose being to enlist, by sym- 
pathy or by force, all workers in the 
movement for One Big Union. 

The present strike, it is said, has; 
little, if anything, to do with the! 
wage question. There is no breach j 
between the railroad companies and 
the men, it is asserted, and it is be- 
cause of this fact that the instigat- 
ors of the present strike are declar- 
ed to be the enemies of the labor j 
unions, as well as of the railroad ; 
companies and of the public. The 
question of wage scales has been 
under consideration for many 
months, and the understanding has 
been, apparently, that in the 
case the companies and the unions 
should fail to agree the adjustment 
of wages would eventually be made 
by the Railroad Labor Board. In- 
deed, it is pointed out, any agree- 
ment made by the railroad companies 
and the unions might eventually have 
been subject to review’ by the board, 
1 n the event of direct agreement, it is 
explained, action by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission would have 
been necessary to determine whether 
tho new’ scale was consistent and 
efficient management of the rail- 
road properties under the provisions 
of the law which guarantees a min- 
imum dividend, and for the purpose 
of increasing freight and passenger 
rates to meet the additional de- 
mands on earnings. 


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The matters for decision by the cause of duress or undue influence. 
Railroad Labor Board now’ are pre- Whether or not this aw’ard will be 
seated upon appeal by the brother- accepted by the so-called outlaw* 
hoods and labor unions. The com- strikers remains to be seen. Most of 
panics, it appears, have refused no the men, it is believed, maintain their 
demands of their employees regular- memberships in the brotherhoods 
ly presented, and no demands havo and unions with which they have 
been made. There is no controversy long been affiliated. They should, 
between the recognized unions with naturally, be bound by any award 
which the railroads have been aeons- regularly made. The real test of the 
\ tomed to negotiate and the railroads solidarity of union Labor, as at pre- 
themselves appear to be confident sent organized, may come with the 
that they w’ill be awarded, by the announcement of the decision in the 
new’ board, whatever may be found matter about to be taken up. Men 
to be just, and this without any sus- w T ho strike without tho approval of 
pieion of the award being made be- the unions and brotherhoods of which 


ROBIN 

HOOD 

FLOOR 

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they are members may possibly feel 
at liberty to refuse to accept an 
award which they may for any rea- 
son regard as inadequate. 

Union Labor officials, both of 
the American Federation of Labor 
and of the railroad brotherhood not 
affiliated therewith, have long been 
cognizant of the efforts of those ra- 
dical leaders, even within their own 
ranks, no “bore from within”, 
which expression describes the pro- 
cess by w’hich disintegration of the 
present organizations is attempted 
by the advocates of tho One Big 
Union plan. Nearly all of these ex- 
tremists have been leaders of the 
admittedly radical factions, the ad- 
herents of those declared or unde- 
clared platforms demanding direct 
action and industrial revolution. 

It is encouraging, however, to get 
the viewpoint of a man of such broad 
experience as that of Alfred H. 
Smith, president of the New York 
Central Railroad and formerly reg- 
ional director of railroads. Mr. Smith 
in an address delivered in New’ York 
City a few days ago, declared that 
the “great majority of railroad em- 
ployees are for the most port loyal, 
capable, fearless American citizens. 
We on the inside sec this loyalty and 
steadfastness. The situation is not as 
bad as it may seem to you today.” 
These loyal men referred to, then, 
are the ones w’lio must be looked to 
ranks, to “bore from within 99 
to be made. It is to be hoped that 
they do indeed constitute the great 
majority of w’orkers affected, and 
that this majority will increase, ra- 
ther than diminish. 

:o: 

HIGH AND LOW 

Magistrate — “Did I understand 
you to say that the parties used 
high w’ords?” 

Police Witness — “Their voices 
w’ere pitched rather high, sir, but 
the words used were extremely 
low*. ’ ’—London Answers. 

ANCIENT ACCIDENTS 


Prof. — “What happened to Ba- 
bylon ? ’ ’ 

Fresh — “It fell.” 

Prof. — “What happened to Tv- 
j re?” 

F resh — ‘ ‘ J t was pu n c t u red . ’ * — 

The St. Cloud (Minn.) High School 
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April 24th, 1920 


Qkttaiitatt IRaUroaiter 

WEEKLY 

The Official Organ of the Fifth Sunday Meeting 
Association of Canada 

Organized Sept. 1916 

Incorporated under Dominion Letters Patent. 

April, 1919. 

J. A. Woodward, President m C. P. R. Conductor 

J. N. Potvin, Vice-President C. P. R. Train Dispatcher 

W. E. Berry, Sec,-Treasurer G. T. R. Conductor 

Executive Committee. 

S. Dale, C. P. R. Engineer; D. Trindall, G. T. R. Locomotive En- 
gineer; John Hogan, C. P. R. Assistant Roadmaster; Archie Du- 
fault, C. P. R. Conductor; E. McGilly, C. P. R. Locomotive Fire- 
man; W. T. Davis, General Yard Master; W. Farley, C. P. R. 
Locomotive Engineer; M. James, C. P. R. Engineer; S. Pugh, 
G. T. R. Conductor; Wm. Parsons, C. G. R. Agent. 

Issued in the interest of Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Con- 
ductors, Locomotive Firemen, Railroad Trainmen (Switchmen), 
Maintenance of Way Men, Railroad Telegraphers and employees 
in all branches of the service. 

Membership open to all who toil by Hand or Brain. 


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44 /^V UTLAW strikes are to be condemned for the sake of 
II the solidarity of the trade union movement. There 
cannot be disorganized organized labor; that would 
be a contradiction in terms; and the “outlaw” strike is disor- 
ganized effort. The logical outcome of increase of “outlaw” 
strikes is the destruction of the trade union movement from with- 
in. That is serious enough for the workers, to begin with, but 
it goes much further. Disorganized workers with grievances 
becoming increasingly difficult of adjustment, the result of dis- 
organization, lead to the upsetting of the whole social system, 
precipitating the worst horrors of revolution. Employers who 
accept unionism only as a necessary evil might well consider 
whether it is wisest to deal reasonably with disciplined union- 
ism or to aid in producing by unreasonableness the “outlaw” 
strike, the end of which is the hanging of the employer to his 
own chandelier. 

Efforts to show that those engaged in “outlaw” strikes 
are persons without principle or have been deceived or sudden- 
ly swept of their feet by the “radical element” are as unfair as 
they are futile. Often the ’’outlaw” strike is the result of the 
effort to live up to contracts, made in good faith, but which, on 
account of the increasing cost of living, have become intoler- 
able in the passage of time. The strict letter of the law has 
become the rankest injustice to one of the parties.to the con- 
tract ; to hold men to contracts by which they contract to work 
for wages which may have become the wages of starvation is 
intolerable. Law must be tempered with mercy. The intent 
of law is justice; the argument of the “outlaw” striker is that 
when justice is baulked by law, the law must go, and it is a 
pretty hard argument to answer. 

So, while outlaw strikes are to be condemned because of 
the general dangers they involve, the condemnation does not 
end there, but should go on to the condemnation of the condi- 
tions giving rise to the strikes. 

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T HE overall craze may have advantages apart from the saving 
in cost of ordinary spring suits. It is quite likely, for in- 
stance, to cause a lot of men who have never worn overalls 
to look like men who have always worn them. That is no par- 
ticular honor to the regular wearers of overalls, and perhaps, in- 
deed, the regular wearers would be justified in passing resolutions 
of protest against this new batch of incompetents usurping the 
badge of honest toil. 

But there is this — overalls on novices might take some of 
the starch out of the novices, and who dare say that that would 
not be a real gain to the community? A man accustomed to be 
addressed as “ Mister, please, sir” in his ordinary apparel might 
come to be addressed as 4 ‘Hey, you, there” in overalls. It is 
conceivable that that alone would be quite an education for him. 
I would give a whole quarter for a photo of the expression of the 
editor of the Gazette, after writing one of those fine anti-labor 
editorials, sauntering out on St. Antoine street in his new over- 
alls, and being hailed with “Hey, you, there” just as if he were 
a street cleaner or a plumber's helper. 

For years I have worn overalls in free hours. They are 
nothing so common as the King George kind with the creases 
down the sides; they have creases all over them. The flight of 
time has greatly improved them. Only an archaeologist could 
discover the original color under the deposits of garden soil and 
powdered ashes, splatches of paint, whitewash, coal oil and roofing 
tar. It would be almost impossible to wash them, and they would 
not be the same even if they could be washed. They are a record 
of deeds done, and I would object to having all the glory launder- 
ed out of them. 

Overalls are at least built for comfort and service, and that 
cannot be said for many popular articles of clothing. Between 
ourselves, I think that nifty suits, linen collars, stiff shirts and 
derby hats are barbarisms, and when I see a man all perked up in 
evening dress I have a fancy that all he needs to complete the 
picture is a ring through his nose and a rope of cowrie shells 
round his neck. As for a silk hat, I always feel tempted to have 
a shy at it with anything handy, just to show that medicine man 
stuff cuts no ice with me. 

There is something to be said for the scarlet and gold and 
feathers of a Governor-General sitting on a gilt throne up at 
Ottawa. It is a pretty spectacle, anyway, and there is a human 
desire for pretty spectacle. Who is not thrilled when the Grena- 
diers or the Kilties go by in all their brave colors? 

But it cannot be claimed for everyday clothes that they are 
pretty, though they may be a spectacle of a sort. So they are 
ruled out on counts of service, comfort and appearance, and over- 
alls come in at least on counts of service and comfort. 

K. C. 


A t TER May 1st the offices of the Fifth Sunday Meeting 
Association and the Canadian Railroader will be at 
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Hill, where two flats will be occupied, this greatly increased ac- 
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April 24th, 1920 



(From our own Correspondent 


boia campaign fund. Mr. Best, who 
has a very primitive mind, was 
pained beyond measure and bought 
it was virtually a form of bribery, 
to solicit money to help candidates. 
Naturally once the money was giv- 
en the votes would follow. Mr. 
Sexsmith agreed that it was il vi- 
cious corruption” and as a farmeT 
said that he often bowed his head 
in shame at some of the politic- 
al methods of the farmers ’ or- 
ganizations. The animosity which 
old Tory members who are farmers 
j themselves or have rural constitu- 
encies display towards the agrarian 
movement is infinitely amusing. 

Then Mr. H. M. Mowat joined in 
the fray. If a belie -0 , shared by no 
one else, that he is a brilliant wit 
and jester, are insignia of political 
capacity, then Mr. Mowat should 
long ago have been elevated to 
99 Cabinet rank. When one realizes 
that in days gone by Mr. Mowat 
was one of the leading stars in the 

P AINS in the small of the of Ontario Liberalism, 

it is easy to see why Conservatism 
back, lumbago, rheuma- p erpe tuaiiy triumphed at the pools. 

the clause was not designed by the tism, pains in tll6 limbs all toll \f r Mowat garrulous gabble is 
government to prevent the real defective kidneys. very trying and on this occasion he 

evils of campaign funds, and he devoted himself to exposure what 

wanted a provision for the fullest Poisons are being left in the turned out to be a mare’s nest in 

publicity. blood which cause pains and aches. t } ie s h a pe of a letter to the Regina 

Mr. A. B. MeMaster, of Brome ^ liver and bowels Reader signed “Disgusted Grain 

i, men moveu , , . Grower” 111 w 

i must be aroused to action by such u . 

an amendment, maned somewhat — eampaii 


/np JIE session continues to be 
X amazingly dull and there i 
was scarcely a spark of life and ex- 
citement during the week. The Gov 
ernnient whips complain that they 
can with difficulty induce any of 
their flock to rise to their feet, 
the Opposition do and say the stock 
things, and the independent pro- j 
grossive group seem hampered in 
their activities by the absence of 
Mr. Crerar. His illness has proved 
more serious than was imagined 
and he is not expected back in the 
House for at least two weeks. 

Monday began with the answer- 
ing of a lot of questions most of 
which were unimportant. Then, af- 
ter Mr. Reid had brought down the 
bill to ratify the Grand Trunk 
agreement, which last session was 
declared to be unnecessary, Col. 
Currie initiated a discussion about 
some employees of the Grand Trunk 
railway who had lost their pension 
rights through participating in a 
strike, in 1910. The House in gen- 
eral showed sympathy with his 
plea for the reinstatement of them j 
in their rights. Mr. Deslauriers 
then raised a discussion on the 
Board of Commerce which he want- 
ed to replace by local Commissions, 
but nothing much materialized from 
the debate, Mr. Verville expressing 
a desire to hang profiteers. Some 
more non-contentious clauses of the 
Franchise Bill were allowed to go 
through. 

On Tuesday, further progress was. 
made with non-contentious clauses 
of the Franchise Bill, but wheu 
clause ten was reached, complete 
harmony ceased. It prohibited any 
company or association other than 
one incorporated solely for political 


purposes from making contributions 
to political campaign funds. There 
is good ground for suspecting that 
this clause is designed to clip the 
wings of the farmers’ and trades 
union associations, who would pro- 
bably be called upon to finance 
candidates supporting their views. 
These farmer and labor bodies are 
not incorporated, and Mr. Levi 
Thomson suggested the addition of 
the word "or Organized” which 
would enable them to be outside 
"he disabilities of the laws. It is 
very different thing for -a rich cor- 
poration to hand over a fat cheque 
to a party organizer than for seve- 
ral hundred comparatively poor men 
to contribute a few 7 dollars each to 
a collective fund for the purpose of 
promoting their political views. Mr. 
Thomson was of the opinion that 



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.• i treatment as Dr. Chase’. Kidney- "’*» analysed and 

wmen L - ver pillg critized. His contemptuous merri- 

would forbid any incorporated or * ment at the 50 cent subscriptions 

unincorporated company or firm There is no time for delay when which is just as much to ma- 
contributing to campaign funds, the kidneys go wrong, for such de- »y struggling homesteaders as 
put a Unfit of $10,000 on any con- yelopments as hardening of the ar- $50 to Mr. Mowat revealed a 
tribution which could be paid by teries and Bright’s disease are the strain of cheap snobbery which on- 
or accepted from a single individual natural result. \ y the Parkdale division of Toron- 

and ensure the fullest possibility to WO uld tolerate in its member, 

for all Mich subscriptions. Bates i Co“\td., Mr. Tweedie, of Calgary, is free 

Mr. Gould, of Assinaboia, appiov Toronto. from these personal defects; he is a 

i ed of the amendment, which he ^ likeable figure and reads and 
thought must be the result of the thinks, but the farmers’ movement 

Mr. Master’s pilgrimage to the 1 ■ | |g9 gX* him as fearsome a plague as 

West In^t fall. He told glee ul \ 0 the sleeping sickness and he would 

.the angry hosts in the West, who iWPll like to have the whole country 

I were sick and tired of the present g fl 111114! IJIAAg il MllM vaccinated against radicalism of 

to denounce in 



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Coalitionists. In succession a series our m *dst. Mr. Gould 

of batteries were unmasked against explained how he was liable to re 
the unfortunate Mr. Gould. Mr. call if he failed in his duty and Mr. 
John Best and Mr. Sexsmith, who Tweedie ’s voice quavered with in- 
sec the U.P.O. plague racing through dignant emotion as he dwelt upon 
their old Tory strongholds, were the woes certain to emanate from 
nav for or take an interest in po- j almoat berid * s themselves with this degrading habit, 
i lirteal work. Other people paid !,t the of the Assina Dr. Edwards also made protest 

' the political machinery and its — ~ 

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money and assist in paying for the 
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in less heroic strain. But it was 
distinctly amusing to see these 
dear innocent®, every one of whom 
probably had been elected by an 
expenditure twice or thrice as hea- 
vy as Mr. Gould’s, wailing over 
this democratically collected cam- 
paing funds of $6000 odd dollars. 
“Me thinks the lady doth protest 
too much” was the phrase which 
came to mind. 

Mr. Halbert and Mr. Maharg re- 
plied from the i>rogressive benches, 
and Mr. Guthrie explained that 
publication of campaign funds had 
been provided for in another clause. 
This clause was in the old bill and 
as it^ had been always gleefully 
disregarded, Mr. McMaster thought 
it insufficient but his amendment 
was beaten on a standing vote. 

On Wednesday, Mr. George Pa- 
rent brought up the question of 
the tragic Quebec riots of Easter 
week, 1918, and the compensation 
claims for losses by death, injury 
and looting. The Militia Depart- 
ment say Quebec City should pay, 
but the Quebec courts decree that 
the Federal Government is respons- 
ible. Mr. Doherty intimed that 
some relief might be considered. 
Then Mr. Burnham moved a resolu- 
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dislikes and antipathies, the Rev. i 
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farmers movement and a few others 1 
and he ladled out vitriolic denun- 
ciations of them all in turn. He lias 
some original ideas and notions, . 
but they are lost through the con- 
fusion of liis mind and the ineo-j 
herence of his delivery. 

On Thursday, Mr. Rowell intro- i 
duced a measure to provide $12,- j 
500,000 for civil service bonuses I 
and Mr. Donal^ Sutherland seized' 
the occasion to make a violent at- 1 
tack upon the civil service. He 
wanted to see them dismissed by ! 
thousands and a little economy in- 
troduced. People, he said, broke j 
their necks to get into the service! 
and then spent their time agitating ; 
for considerations denied ordinary | 
working people who had half a 
day ’s work done before the civil 
service started its day.There was a 
lengthy discussion and the vote 
was eventually passed after mid-! 
night. 

Friday was practically all cons - 1 
limed in a discussion of the Grand 
Trunk Bill. The Opposition were! 
exceedingly suspicious of the Gov- ; 
eminent ’is bona fides and maintain-: 
ed a steady fire of criticism and j 
inquiry in committee. Mr. Meighen i 
is plainly tired of rescuing Dr. j 
Reid from the quagmires and trou - 1 
bles into which his bucolic ignoran- 
ce plunge him at regular intervals, | 
and the Minister of Railways had 
to rely on occasional succour from 
Mr. Doherty’s ripe wisdom. 

Mr. Fielding wanted to confine: 
the bill to ratifying any errors j 
made in the Act of last session and j 
to strike out the clause ratifying 
the corrected agreement. As far as 
Parliament made an omission about 
the two small railways, he vrould 
correct it, but if the Grand Trunk 
shareholders had made an error, 
they could correct it themselves. 
After some discussion, his amend- 
ment was lost ’without a division. 
There was a division during the 
debate on an appeal from a ruling 
of the Chair. Mr. E. W. Nesbitt i 
was in the chair, and he ruled Mr. j 
A. R. McMaster out of order for j 
reading an extract from the Times : 
report of the Grand Trunk share-! 
holders’ meeting in which some | 
irate gentleman declared that our 
Dominion Government had no mor- 
als and quoted examples of parallel 
iniquities on the part of divers 
provincial administrations. 

Mr. McMasJer, quite properly it 
seemed to neutral observers, de- j 
manded a division on this ruling,; 
but the dumb-driven cohorts of the j 
Coalition backed up the chair. 

Following up the question rais- j 
cd by Col. Currie, Mr. Mackenzie, 
King submitted an amendment to, 
the Grand Trunk Bill providing for 
a clause in the acquisition agree- 
ment which should stipulate that 
any . pensions rights enjoyed by 
Grand Trunk men prior to 1910 
should not be affected by the 
strike. 

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Loudon, March 26th. more for adults and 35c. for boys. 

The Government, which still re- 

Coincident with (he advent of tains control over, although it does 
summer-like weather, we are hav- not own, the mines, replies with an 
ing an outcrop o»f strikes and ru- offer of 35c! and 12c. The miners 
mors of strikes. It would not bo prepare a ballot paper foa* or 
fair to attribute the disturbed in- against a strike. The Premier in- 
dustrial atmosphere entirely to the vites them to another conference 
happy atmosphere of the climatic at the official residence, 10, Down- 
order, but we have often noticed ing Street, and at the moment of 
in this country that there has been , writing, the game is going on. 
a human tendency towards a stop- There is an alternative Govern- 
page of work when the trees are ment proposal in the field — to give j 
bursting with bloom and the daf- the men 20 per cent increase on 
fodils are in their beauty. pre-war wages on piece rates, but 

It is the miners and the railway- this is probably not the las-t word, t 

men who are most likely to come At. the moment of writing, the 
out. The Brewery workers are also completion of the ballot by April 
threatening. 14th is contemplated. In that case, it 

The miners demand 15c. a shift j A 0U! * ^e lu ‘ ar ^he onc * April be- 

)re any strike could begin, if all 
the usual formalities of notice were 
! observed. Notice custom varies, m 

some coalfields none is given, iu . 
others the term is a week and in 
| rill others a fortnight. Therefore, 
i jpart from the possibility of break- 
away strikes, there will be over 
four weeks for reflection on both 
sides. 

There is one matter in regard to 
which it is thought the Govern- 
ment owe an explanation to rne 
public. The Coal Controller declin- 
ed to go beyond 35c. a day on the 
flat rate basis. Nevertheless, the 20 
per cent offer on standard rate 
earnings would, according to Frank 
Hodges, the Miners’ Secretary, be 
equivalent in the aggregate to a 
flat rate increase of roughly 48c. a 
day for men and 24c. for boys. 

Why then should not a flat rate 
increase of 50c. and 25c. respective- 
ly be offered ? The Federation is 
definitely hostile to the percentage 
method because it operates to the 
advanta-tge of the highlv-paid men. 
Their policy is to lessen rather than 
increase in e-qualities, but Hodges 
explains that the Government is 
opposed to the flat rate system. 
Two examples of the percentage in- 
crease may be given: 

1. A hewer in a prolific seam 
ear ns on piece rates the exceptional 
wage of, say, $40 a week. War 
wage $4.50 and Ban key wage $3 
(money accruing from the last 
award) are deducted, leaving $32.50 
on which the 20 per cent is corn- 
put ed. This would give an in 
crease of $39 weekly. 

A haulage man, or loader, or 
surfaceman on the minimum day 
wage earns, say, $20. The deduc- 
tion would be $7.50 and the in- 
crease would be 20 per cent of 
$12.50 or $2.50 a week. 

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it would inevitably cause internal 
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The Miners’ Federation of Great 
Britain, as a national Federation, 
has no strike funds; but the score 
or so of district associations and 
federations which compose it have 


accumulated balances of varying 
amounts to the total, probably, of - 
something over $5,000,000. ' The 
Yorkshire association’s funds mu-st 
have been seriously depleted by 
j the strike last. August, and there 
may be no great eagerness there 
for a further stoppage. The .South 
i Wales Federation also ha< no great 
reserves, owing to the aliiios' in- 
cessant drain of partial and spora- 
dic disputes. Among some 800,000 
miners a fund of $5,000,000 will not 
go far. In any case, a strike is not 


a picnic, in these days of depress- 
ed money values, on a few’ shilling 
a day. At the same time, the loyal- 
ty of the men to the union will not 
be easily shattered, and if the Fe- 
deration calls a national strike, the 
strike will be national. 

Late last night it was announced 
that the Government had increas- 
ed their offer for the boys to 18c. 
!>er day, but were still insisting on 
the percentage basis. The delegate 
conference is still in session. 

The possibility of a London Un- 


April 24th, 1920 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


Page 13 


derground railway strike and no 
traffic during the Easter holidays 
was annonuneed in the House of 
Commons by Mr. J. H. Thomas, the 
National Union of Railwaymen Ge- 
neral Secretary, when the London 
Electric Railway Company's Bill, 
dealing with fares, was mentioned. 

Mr. Thomas said the Bill affect- 
ed the interests of the men who 
had made a wages settlement which 
had not been paid, and the manage- 
ment said they could not pay and 
would not pay until thin. Bill was 
debated in Parliament. The men 
had decided that unless they re- 
ceived their wages next week there 
would be no traffic during the holi- 
days. 

There were outcries, of course, 
but the fact is that there is too 
much tardiness over these settle- 
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The man's case is that he refused 
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ed as punishment. 

During the next few weeks, an 
important ballet will be taking 
place in the engineering trades. 
The employers having refused to 
consider any question of wage con- 
solidation unless the engineering 
Unions would undertake to accept 
piecework, the Executive Commit- 
tees of the nine Unions concerned 
have issued the employers' offer 
to their members, with a ballot pa- 
per enquiring whether or not they 
are willing that their executives 
should enter into negotiations with 
the employers on the question of 
payment by results. If the vote 
goes in favor of negotiation, a fur- 
ther ballot will be necessary on 
any joint recommendation arrived 
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tories, if the workers in the factory 
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dividual p : ecework; (2) collective 
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result^ is accepted, the employers 
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basic rates, and accept responsibil- 
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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


April 24th, 1920 


Distinguished Recruits for 
the British Labor Party 


(By J. A. S 

A NYONE who imagines that the 
British Labor party whose as- 
tonishing progress in electoral favor, 
bring its advent to office after the 
next general election within the range 
of possibilities, is a purely working 
class organization makes a profound 
error. Its ranks are open to all who 
labor by hand and brain and there 
has been a steady drift to it of a 
large element of the salaried and in- 
tellectual classes. Its ranks include 
several peers, various generals and ad- 
mirals, a numerous band of college 
professors and a large element of uni- 
versity undergraduates. Scarcely a 
day passes but some well-known fig- 
ure announces his adhesion to the 
Labor platform. But it has recently 
received some very distinguished re- 
cruits and the reason their enlitsment 
with us are even more noteworthy than 
the actual fact of joining. Professor 
Frederick Soddy, Lee’s Professor of 
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry in 
the University of Oxford is one of 
the leading scientists in England and 
his reputation is now world wide. His 
researches have been responsible for 
one of the most revolutionary scien- 
tific discoveries of recent years and 
his appointment at the age of forty 
to this most important chair is suf- 
ficient testimony of his prestige. He 


iTEVENSON.) 

has just written a book called 
“ Science and Life” in which he dis- 
cusses the social and economic pos- 
sibilities of the latest scientific dis- 
coveries. In a lecture to the Inde- 
pendent Labor party in Aberdeen he 
predicted recently that the potential 
energy latent everywhere in nature 
will in the course of time be used in- 
creasingly more to replace the animate 
energy of man. Primitive man often 
froze to death on the site of vast 
coal deposits of which he was un- 
aware and today a large proportion 
of humanity leads a cramped and 
narrow existence which for a .general ! 
standard of life far beyond our wild- 
est dreams surrounds us everywhere, 
though still out of reach. " Could 
the energy” he said "steadily dif- 
fused in the transmutation of radio 
active elements be harnessed by man, 
we will see a transformation of the 
standards of life incomparably beyond 
that brought about by the harnessing 
of electricity. Control by man of the 
atomic energy thrown off by the 
radio-active elements — in a manner 
similar to the way ordinary processes 
| such as the combustion of coal are 
now controlled is the vital step which 
science has yet to take.” 

Professor Soddy then proceeded to 
explain that the process of radio- 


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activity which has been going on in and also that while he was in high of- 
certain elements since the beginnings ficial position at the Admiralty at 
of the universe steadily releases a re- the beginning of the century he was 
serve of energy incomparably greater a strong pro-Boer. But the views of 
than any yet utilized. The parent the younger generation are of more 
element throws off atomic particle ? real import and it is more than ord- 
and slowly alters in its nature in ac inarily interesting to find one of the 
cordance with definite laws in whose I most distinguished of the younger 
discovery Professor Soddy has played general of the legulai aimy joining 
a notable part. If the expulsion of the Labor party. Brigadier-General 
these particles could by some means be j C. B. Thompson who possesses num 
controlled, it would ‘ be possible to erous decorations joined the regular 
convert at will lead mercury or other army as a lieutenant in 1894 an 1 
elements into gold or other precious j fought both in the Matable cam- 
metals. But this would be a petty paign and the South African War. 
achievement though if carried out on He passed through the Staff College 
an extensive scale it would speedily 1 w jth distinction and went to France 
destroy the intrinsic value of gold. j n August 1914 as a member of the 

staff of Lord Haig who then com- 


Professor Soddy thinks that judging 
by the progress already achieved, the 
next decade may well see scientific 
advances which could if properly 


manded the First Division. After 
seeing considerable service there he 
was sent on a military mission to 


directed pave the way for the golden Roumama and had an oppoitumty of 
age of mankind. "Already” he says visiting Russia before the Revolution 
‘ ‘science though the medium of atomic broke out and subsequently. Later on 
energy has laid its hands upon a tool be commanded a brigade in the Pales- 
which if controlled by man could tine campaign-, and enhanced lus nuh- 
eliminate for ever the nightmare of tary reputation. General Smuts took 
existing prolonged only from day to j with him on m.ss.on to V.enna and 
day by unremitting toil.” Then he 
gives his reason for joining the Labor 


party thus, "The uses already made 
of science show how necessary it is 
that a new social order be developed 
ere a million times more awful powers 
are unleashed by man. So far the 
pearls of science have been cast be- 
fore those who have given us in re- 
turn the desolation of scientific war 


on his return he was selected as 
British representative on the Supreme 
Military Council of the Allies, one of 
the mast responsible posts in the 
Army. His insight into proceedings 
at Paris and his experiences in Au- 
stria and Hungary led him to the 
belief that the statesmen who con- 
trolled the destinies of Europe and 
the peace settlement had made a most 


i u m i ml* luibimunm m. suiciii/iiic mu- * 

fare and the almost equal desolation disastrous mess of their task and 
of unscientific government. In the ^ «>e problem was tackled by 

world that is to co.no the control of governments and lefts jaded 

lawyers, financiers, politicians and the continent would welter n 

the merely possessive or acquisitive misery and desolation. 11 n 
must give place to a system in which the Labor party seemed to offer the 

only hope of an alternative to the 
Lloyd-Georgian Government, so he 
decided to throw in his lot with it. 
He is now acting as correspondent 

for the Herald, the daily organ of the 
Labor party and is standing as Labor 
candidate for a division of Bristol. 
His example, it should be said is 
being followed by numerous other 

young officers whose eyes the war 


the creative elements must rule. 

Then Admiral Lord Fisher, the 
most distinguished sailor whom Great 
Britain has produced since Nelson 
has given his adherence to the Labor 
party and declared that the best hope 
of Britain ’s regeneration towards 
prosperity and a better civilization 
lies in its programme of reform. But 


Lord Fisher is approaching his has opened and among recently an 
eightieth year and while his opinions j nounced Labor candidates are two 
will always command respect, he is I colonels each holding the D. S. 0. 
no longer an active force. The two What has been -the great salvation of 
volumes of Memoirs which he recently British political life and has averted 
published are a most illuminating ex- t j 10 cla9S conflicts so prevalent in 
posure of the muddleheadedness and ot ] ier countries is the fact that people 
obstinate conservatism which have 0 f rank, wealth and education have 
been throttling the government de- alwa ys been ready to throw themselves 
partments of Britain for many a day in considerable numbers on the side 
and against which Lord Fisher him of the cause of reform. Tn fact from 

self fouglut continuous battles for them have often — the most 

fifty years. They reveal him always energetic and wholehearted progress 
to have been a radical and democrat ives in the country. 


April 24th, 1920 


THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


Page 15 


A Close Look at the Convention 
Which Rejected Direct Action 


(By Ethelbert Pogson, correspondent of the Railroader.) 

London, the vote overwhelmingly in favor of 


We in this country have just es- 
caped a general strike. That sounds 
at first like an alarming statement, 
and so explanations arc due. We 
escaped it by a vote of nearly 3,000,- 
000 cast at a trade union Congress on 
the nationalization of mines. Labor 
will now continue political propag- 
anda in connection with the question 
and the miners will ask for increas- 
ed money. 

The “ crisis’ ’ has, perhaps natural- 
ly, caused no little excitement among 
the general public and created a 
flutter of interest in trade union cir- 
cles. But those of us who have 
some measure of behind-the-scenes 
knowledge have never had cause for : 
uneasiness. We knew our unions. 

When the government refused to 
accept the majority report of the 
Sankey Commission and nationalize 
the miners felt, and exhibited, natu- 
ral anger. They held that, having 
appointed the Commission, the Gov- 
ernment should be prepared to stand 
by its report. The Congresses which 
have been passed, I have dealt with 
in this column from time to time. 
What is of present interest is that 
the miners announced this week a 
vote taken in the coalfields as to 
whether they should recommend all 
workers to down tools to get the 
mines nationalized. As it was their 
own special conception and desire, 
one was not at all surprised to find 


strike. 

Accordingly, when the miners at- 
tended yesterday’s congress of all 
organized Labor and advocated di- 
rect action it was quite according to 
plan and occasioned no surprise. 
Frank Hodges, the miners’ secretary, 
put their position with admirable 
clearness. He declared that, by re- 
fusing to accept the findings of 
their own Commission, the Govern- 
ment had been guilty of a gigantic 
fraud and the miners had no longer 
any faith in the Parliamentary in- 
stitution as it exists today. 

If the Labor Party w r on three by- 
elections a year it would take them 
15 1-2 years before they got 100 
members in Parliament, and the cap- 
italist block should still have a maj- 
ority of 500. Where they prepared 
to w’ait for an indefinite number of 
years and be satisfied with political 
action ? 

If they could accomplish their : 
ends by his suggestion there was no 
reason why they should not attempt 
it. If there was to be no great 
movement for the nationalization of 
the mines, where were they going to 
put the miners? 

Were they going to thrust them 
back into the vortex where they had 
been swimmnig — “wages, wages, 
wages” in an impossible endeavor 
to catch up with prices, instead of 
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tion. 

But the speech was being heard by 
men who have thrashed the question 
out in their own organizations in the 
several industrial sections of the 
country. Many of them had wages 
movements of their own in prepar- 
ation or progress. So that while the 
i speech of Hodges was accorded the 
applause its cleverness deserved, 
there was as yet no indications that 
this meant practical support. 

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Thomas, was the chairman and he 
carried with him a voting strength 
of 600,000. He was dead against 
the strike. Then followed Tom Shaw, 
who represents the textile workers 
and he poured ridicule on the idea. 
He declared that if they called a 
strike they could not make it suc- 
cessful, because it would never give 
them nationlization, but only put; 
the Labor movement back 20 years. 

After him came J.R. Clynes, pre- 
sident of the unskilled workers, 
whoso vote is about 1,500,000 strong. 
When he had spoken against, the 
whole thing was practically settled. 

Clynes said he opposed the policy 
of direct action, not because it might 
fail or for the ill-consequences that 
would follow, but because, in the 
main, direct action was wrong. 

“The man who would most wel- 
come direct action” he declared, “is 
not at this conference. He is at this 
moment sitting in Downing Street,, 
at the head of the Government.” 

“The Prime Minister is at pre-j 
sent embarrassed, and he would wel- 
come direct action on our part be- 
cause it would strengthen his posi- 
tion enormously. 

Whatever else he may lack, the 
Prime Minister does not lack in pol- 
itical strategy. You declare a gen- 
eral strike and he declares a Gen- 
eral Election, under conditions with 
our own class rent in twain and ^very 
other class determined to resist this 
aggressive step on the part of Labor. 
Who would gain?” 

Clynes twitted the apathetic work- 
ers by saying ° There are plenty of 
people who would travel to London 
to see a football match but who ; 
wouldn’t travel to the ballot box to j 
vote for Labor.” 

Finally the voting for political ac- 
tion was 3,732,000 and 1,015,000 
against. 

This is a pretty big thing for Bri- 
tish Labor, because it tests once and 
for all the real strength of the direct 
action element. It has now’ been de- 
finitely revealed that, w r ith Labor’s 
I chances at the polls growing rosier, 
the worker** are not going to imperil* 
them by precipitate action. 

A vote of this kind made look all 
the more foolish a so-called rank- 
and-file convention held at the same 
time in the same building. There j 
were about 90 people present, and i 
they had assembled to tell the lead- 
ers of Labor of their sins of omis- 
sion and commission and instruct 
them as to their future conduct. 

I took the trouble to probe into 
the real value of their representa- 
tion. I found that w’hilo a few unions 


had sent delegates from a number of 
the more advanced branches, other of 
the speakers who came from insig- 
nificant and obscure “workers’ 
commitees”,- “anarchist groups”, 
“communist league” and organiza- 
tions that cut no ice with us and 
only exist for the purpose of hear- 
ing themselves talk. 

Even then they couldn’t agree 
among themselves. One w r ould start 
out to demand a strike to secure na- 
tionalization of mines. Another 
w r ould promptly announce that this 
w’as no use at all — that 
what w r as needed was So- 
cialization of mines. A third 
would rise suddenly and angrily to 
declare that only Sovietization was 
any remedy. And so they went on. 
It was an eternal jangle and the on- 
ly excuse w r as the extreme youth of 
the janglers. Many of them were not 
long out of their ’teens. 

I know 7 w r e are lookel upon by some 
other parts of the w 7 orld as unpro- 
gressive in this old country, but La- 
bor has learned the lesson here of 
the advisability to make haste slow- 
ly and revolutionaries are not going 
to put British Labor out of its stride 
yet a while. 

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Page 17 


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quarter a year. 

* # # 

Amendments to the Workmen’s 
Compensation Act to be introduced 
this session increase from 55 to 75 
per cent of the husband’s earnings 
the maximum to be paid. Allowance 
to widows will be increased from 
$20 to $40 a month, and for child- 
ren from $5 and $7.50 to $10 a 
month. Burial expenses allowed 
will be increased from $75 to $125, 
and a lump sum of $100 will be 
payable to widows at the time of 
the husband’s death. 

# • * 


Employees of the Canada Sugar 
Company and the St. Lawrence Su- 
gar Refinery have applied for an 
increase of 29 cents an hour and an 
eight hour- day. An offer of six 
cents an hour by the companies was 
rejected. Nearly 1299 men are af- 
fected. 

# # # 


Montreal painters have agreed 
to accept the employers’ offer of 
65 cents an hour 'and a 59 hour 
week. 

# # * 


Employees of wholesale provision 
houses are dissatisfied with the of- 
fer made them of an increase of $3 
a week and a 50 hour week, and 
may strike. Egg candlers, who con- 
duct their work in a dark room in 
the day time, and are paid $20 to 
$22 a week, seek $25, and say they 
will leave the public who eat the 
eggs to judge of the reasonableness 
of their demands. 

# # # 


Contractors’ wiremen in Sydney, 
N. S., formed a branch of the Bro- 
therhood of Electrical Workers. 

# * # 


Work for 599 men will be provid- 
ed by the erection of the Canadian 
factory of the Commerce Motor 
Car Co. Ltd., of Detroit, which will 
be built at Guelph. 


:o: 


BUT SOMETIMES WORDS FAIL. 

“What do you call a man who 
plays a saxophone! ” 

“It depends on how rotten he 
is.” — The Yale Record. 


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THE CANADIAN EAILEOADEE 


April 24th, 1920 


THE CHALLENGE 

By Paul Lvman Benjamin. 


The Toiler speaks — 

“1 will give my hands — my hands 
Knotted with strain and toil, 

Torn with labor of all the lands, 

But you — will you give your spoil ?” 

The Student speaks — 

“ I will give my brain and my soul, 

I will not wince at pain; 

I will pay to the full the toll, 

And you — will you give your gain?” 

The Clerk speaks — 

“1 will give my life — my breath, 

Oh, God, I have no more; 

I will laugh at a grisly death, 

But you — will you give your store?” 

II X 

The Poet speaks — 

“I will give my dreams and my song, 

I will write with the sword; 

I will challenge kings for these wrongs, 
And you — will you give your hoard?” 


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“I will give my youth — this youth, 

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Into a beautiful field will grow’. 

Little by little the world goes strong, 
Fighting the battle of Bight and Wrong; 
Little by little the Wrong gives way — 


Little by little the Bight has sway. 


DISCOVERED-MAYOB 

OF THE MIDDLE AGES 


Meetings of Labor Organizations 
Banned by Proclamation Issued in 
Hazard, Kentucky. 


King Canute commanding the wa- 
ters to be still has nothing on the 
Mayor of Hazard, Kentucky. 

This latter gent, opening his eyes 
one day and looking around him, be- 
thought himself that ‘the workers 
are getting too independent.Whe~eas, 
in the days of old only knights who 
were bold and nobles and kings had 
nothing to say about the weather 
and the price of eggs and conditions 
generally, nowadays it appears that 
even the common workers are getting 
together and actually talking of or- 
ganizing so as to deal collectively 
with the bosses in an effort to im- 
prove' their standards of living. 

Such rank impudence must be 
curbed, and at once. Before you 
know it the workers may even de- ( 


cide to go into politics for them- ‘ 
selves. Horrors! Wherefore Hizzo- 
ner takes his typewriter and paper 
and issues a proclamation forbidding 
free speech on matters pertaining to ! 
labor organizations. Behold! 

Proclamation Against Free Speech. 

Whereas it has come to the atten- 
tion of the Mayor of the City of Ha- 1 
zard that there exists a necessity for 
proclamation to prevent public gath- 
ering for the purpose of public 
speaking, organizing, agitating, or to 
discuss matters pertaining to labor 
organization for or against: 

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discussions of matters pertaining to 
labor organizations for or against, to 
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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


Page 19 


Clergy and Social Work 

* (Contributed.) 


I T was a pity that the clergy- 
men who attended the An- 
glican Synod held last week in 
Montreal did not hear an address 
which was delivered by Warwick 
Chipman, to a gathering of laity, 
who were also in attendance at its 
sessions, for he gave some advice 
which would have stood them in 
good stead in one of their debates. 

Mr. Chipman argued that it was 
not the province of the Church to 
undertake social work but to educ- 
ate the community up to the point 
where the work would be initiated 
as the result of the teachings of 
the Church. The speaker instanced 
hospitals . as institutions which had 
originally been conducted by the 
Church, but which had been taken 
over by the community at large, 
and he might also have mentioned 
schools. 

Later in the week in the Synod, 
it was proposed that a survey of 
facilities for children’s recreation 
and amusement in Montreal should 
be made, and the proposer ut for- 
ward the suggestion that the re- 
cently formed Montreal Council of 
Social Agencies, which had appoint- 
ed a committee for research and 
survey, might be asked to co-oper- 
ate in this effort. It was evident 
that very few of those present 
knew anything about the new fe- 
deration of social agencies; but 
some of the clergy thought they 
knew that it was an institution 
which did not name Jesus Christ, 
and on that account they recom- 
mended that the Synod Social Serv 
ice work should not enlist its co- 
operation. Yet this Montreal Coun- 
cil of Social Agencies embodied 
an example of what Mr. Warwick 
Chipman had spoken of, namely, 
an agency which represented the 
fruits of Christian teachings and 
sentiment throughout the ages, and 
which had undertaken to perform 
work that originally was within 
the direct province of the Church. 

For the benefit of those clergy 
who had very vague ideas about the 
new federation, it may bo explain-! 
ed that it had upon its council t 
representatives of practically all the 
leading Protestant or non-Catholic 
institutions and societies which are 
ministering in Montreal to the 
sick, the poor, the halt, the unfort- 
unate, the delinquent. The council, 
as such, may not mention the name 
of the Founder of Christianity, but 
its individuel members mostly are 
members of churches, and quite a 
large proportion of them aTe aem 
hers of the Anglican Church. The 
underlying conception of the Mont 
real Council of Social Agencies is 
that it is better for all interested 
in ameliorating conditions in the 
community to get together, so that 
if, for instance, the question of 
housing should come up, the Chari- 
ty Organization, the hospital 


boards, the University Settlements,! 
the orphanages, the educational 
bodies, — all of which are affected i 
in some way by the problem of the - 
home — shall be able to make one ] 
big push for the furthering of any 
scheme that may be brought up. 
Individual representatives on the 
council no doubt have their private 
faith, but it is not necessary when 
disucussing a housing scheme or 
a tuberculosi hospital, to intro - 1 
duce the question of faith, for, 
there may be a Jew on the council, i 
or a theosophist, whose aid in such j 
schemes will be helpful. 

If the Church is going to ask 
outsider organizations to undertake 
social work which it points out as 
necessary to fulfil the law of 
Christ, it must net lay down shib- 
boleths that will ostracise all who 
cannot pronounce the password. 

Caedmon. 

:o: 

HOPEFUL SIGN 


Husband. — “ You ’ll never get 
that new dog of yours to mind 
you. ’ ’ 

Wife. — “Oh, yes, I will. — You 
were just as troublesome yourself 
at first.” — London Opinion. 

:o: 

TWO WRONGS, ONE RIGHT 


“An optimist is a man who cher- 
ishes vain hopes, and a pessimist a 
man who nurses vain regrets.” 

“And what is a man who does 
both?” 

“Oh, he’s just a plain rdinary 
hu man.”- -Boston Transcript. 

:o: 

SOON OUT OF SIGHT 

“So you think you are becoming 
near-sighted, do you?” said the 
optician. 

“Yes, I do,” replied the tired 
business man. 

“What makes you think so?” 

“Because I can’t see a dollar go 
near as far as I used to.” — Yonkers 

Statesman. 

:o: 

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“Waiter, why do you bring me 
this same potato day after day?” 

“Well, sir, you never eat it.” — 
World (London). 

:o: 

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is not exclusively an eastern pro- 
blem. Out in Kansas, for instance, 
a native observed a stranger look- 
ing around and ventured to say, 
“Good morning, sir, House hunt- 
ing?” 

“Yes,” replied the stranger. “I 
wonder if it could have blown this 

far. ’ ’ — Boston Transcript. 


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Overalls in Fashion 

(By BOY CARMICHAEL) 


The Nichols Chemical Company, Limited 


The overall “ craze* ’ may or may 
not be a craze, but it has arrived 
and must be taken note of. With 
our usual conservatism we in 
Montreal are a day or two behind 
other cities in making radical de- 
partures which may only have no- 
velty to commend them, but it only 
needs the endorsation of the com- 
mercial capital to stamp any move- 
ment with the hallmark. Up to 
now, though City Hall employees are 
asking for them, the business com- 
munity still looks askance at the 
new movement. Not so the retail 
trade in men’s wear, however. It 
may be a surprise to Montrealers to 
know just how enterprising our mer- 
chants are, and how shrewdly they 
take time by the forelock. Conver- 
sation with a large manufacturer of 
overalls reveals the fact that sever- 
al men’s wear establishments, which 
have never before handled overalls, 
have placed large orders for them, 
being fully convinced that the cam- 
paign will strike Montreal with full 
force in a few days. 

“Some of these merchants are go- 
ing to feature overalls in their ad- 
vertising to test the feeling of the 
public, ’ ’said the manufacturer / 1 and 
if there is the response they antici- 
pate we shall have renewal orders. 
In that case I don’t know what we 
shall do, for already the demand is 
greater than the supply. The mater- 
ial is scarce, and the price is high — 
three times what it was before the I 
war. I have no doubt prices will 
go still higher and that some novel- 
ties in overall wear will be produced 
for the finieky.My guess is that we 
shall have fashions in overalls, and 
that before the movement has end- 
ed it will be possible to tell the 
(classy dresser) from the kind of 
overalls he wears, and the stylish 
way he wears ’em.” 

Retail stores report many enquir- 
ies of a timid and tentative nature, 
but few' purchases are yet beyond 
the normal. Some of the higher 
class houses have not placed orders, 
yet, preferring to wait and see what 
form the movement takes, and whe- 
ther manufacturers will cater spe- j 
cially to the business man by design- i 
ing an overall which will differen- j 
tiate him from the man whose work 
compells him to wear overalls to pro- 
tect his garments from stain. No 
doubt there will be varieties of 
snobbery amongst the overalls wear- 
ers, for overalls will not change the 
character, but the main question is 
whether a sufficient number will 
wear them, and continue wearing 
them until the price of clothing 
drops, which is the object of the 
movement, or whether this will be 
just a passing fancy which will add 
to a man’s expenditure the cost of 
including overalls in the fashionable 
wardrobe. 

That the movement will be scotch- 
ed by ridicule, is the hope of some 
clothing manufacturers, and one who 


has the advantage of possessing a 
retail store took the initial step in 
that direction on Wednesday by 
dressing his entire sales staff in 
overalls, announcing that he did so 
“for the delight of the public” who 
gathered in large numbers around 
his windows and certainly exhibited 
amusement at the appearance of the 
clerks in their unaccustomed cos- 
tume. This firm is charging seven 
dollars for overalls creased at the 
side like King George’s and adver- 
tises that it is stocking them 
“for those who want to squander 
their money.” For some people “it 
recommends a light coat made in 
England.” 

Last minute news is to the effect 
that Premier Drury and sixteen 
mebers of the Ontario Legislature 
have pledged themselves to wear 
overalls during the session. But 
then the Ontario Parliament being 
farmers are used to wearing over- 
alls. 

0; 

WHAT COUNTS 


“The amount of money a fel- 
low’s father has doesn’t seem to 
cut much figure here.” 

“No, it’s the amount of the 
father’s money the son has.” — 
Yale Record. 

:o: 

PROBABLY 


Bix — ‘ i Who was it said that the 
unexpected always happens?” 

Dix — “I don’t know. Wasn’t it 
somebody connected with tho Wea- 
ther Bureau?” — Boston Transcript. 


QUITE SIMPLE 


We hear that a Leicestershire 
hen has adopted a litter of pigs. A 
possible explanation of this is the 
natural intimacy between ham and 

eegs. — London Blighty. 

:o: 

HOPELESS ADDICT 


“Have you never thought of re- 
tiring from politics?” 

“Yes,” replied Senator Sorg- 
hum; “but always with shud 
der. ” — Washington Star. 


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He — “Reggie’s girl has money! 
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She — “Yes, I hear she’s looking! 
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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


April 24th, 1920 


The Fifth Sunday Meeting Association of Canada 


Its Only Aim Is The Welfare of The Masses. 


The people of a nation cannot advance beyond the men who make its 
laws, and the Fifth Sunday Meeting Association of Canada exists to see 
to it that the workers by hand and brain are directly represented in the 
law-making bodies of the Dominion; to find, train and elect the right men 
of our own class in order to secure the kind of legislation that will protect 
and advance the interests of the workers. 

It will wage warfare on plutocracy, despotism, economic privileges 
and upon all the evil forces which burden the people and rob them of that 
happiness of living which is their fundamental right. 

It is a non-partisan educational and political association, and because 
of the manner in which it is organized can never become the instrument 
or plaything of a small group of any class, particularly of wealthy meD 
The aim is the attainment of true democracy. 

WE PLEDGE OURSELVES:— 

To support all municipal, provincial and federal educational plans 
where the evident purpose is to raise the standard of education in en 
lightened and progressive ways; to present truthfully and fearlessly 
through the medium of Fifth Sunday Meetings and our own press, thb 
" Canadian Railroader”, the latest and most important political, social and 
industrial developments ; 

To advocate the abolition of property qualifications for the franchise 
or for election to public office; the adoption of the Initiative, Referendun 
and Recall, and of proportional representation in all forms of public 
government; universal suffrage for both sexes, on the basis of one person 
one vote; the transfer of taxes from improvements, and all products of 
labor, to land values, incomes and inheritances; 

To advocate prison reform, including introduction of the honor and 
segregation systems, and abolition of contract labor; the enactment and 
rigid enforcement of child labor laws; pensions for mothers with dependent 
children; regulation of immigration to prevent lowering of industrial, poli- 
tical or social standards; development of the postal savings and parcel post 
systems; financial and other assistance to farmers through co-operative 
tanks and by other means; government development of co-operative pro 
ducing and trading associations for the benefit of the consumer; 

To advocate extension of workmen ’s housing schemes and the labor 
bureau system ; provision of technical education for every willing worker, 
according to his capacities; more effective inspection of buildings, factories, 
workshops and mines; minimum wages; a rest period of not less than a day 
and a half per week for every worker; government insurance of workers 
against sickness, injury and death; maternity benefits and old-age pensions: 
better Workmen’s Compensation Acts; representation of the workers on all 
public boards and on boards for the supervision of private enterprises; 
union labor conditions in all government work; adequate pensions and op- 
portunities for soldiers and their dependents; 

To advocate freedom of speech and of the press, and a law compelling 
all newspapers and periodicals to publish in all issues a complete list of 
shareholders and bondholders. 

"The Fifth Sunday Meeting Association of Canada” is financed en- 
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Labor Rising 
as an Important 
Political Factor 


(Dearborn Independent.) 

On five continents, today the po- 
litical watchword is Labor. That 
doesn't mean Labor is ready to 
grasp the government of five con- 
tinents; it doesn't mean that Labor 
expects to grasp the government of 
five continents, or even of one 
continent. 

It does mean that for the first 
time in history Labor is everywhere 
a prime political factor. -Not a 
general election held anywhere in 
the world during the year just pass- 
ed but weighed Labor gravely; not 
a political crisis this year, not a 
campaign from the Presidential 
campaign in the United States of 
America to the campaign in the Ar- 
gentine Republic, from the Domi- 
nion Parliament to the Finnish 
Council, but is scrutinizing it. 

There is nothing to suspect in 
Labor. Labor is not a revolution. 
Labor is not even radical. Labor is 
u logical development of the idea 
of self-interest and advancement, 
!>v which a very large division of 
human beings has beeome cohesive 
and coherent. It represents a dis- 
tinct idea; but the idea it repre- 
sents is one well within the limits 
of constitutional government. 

Tho way Labor looks at it every- 
where is this: Labor wants to see 
put into action a very advanced 
programme of social reform, de- 
signed to make life safer for the 
wage-earner, to guarantee a certain 
independence in his declining 
years, and to wipe out forever the 
bogey of the poorhouse. Labor 
would like to do this; if Labor can 
win a majority of the citizens of 
any country to its way of thinking, 
Labor will try these interesting ex- 
periments; if this majority does 
not approve, Labor will preach and 
talk and demonstrate until the ma- 
jority changes its mind. 

In France Labor has driven home 
its idea to the professions. In Bri- 
tain the hand and brain movement 
is linking the clerk class with the 
labor class — their objects are held 
in common. So it goes the world 
over. What' has happened is that 
the Liberals who ten years ago 
were the Left — the Radicals — the 
Innovators, have become almost the 
Right, not because they have be- 
come conservative and moved 
over, but because on their left new 
groups have appeared, stretching 
away through the degrees of con- 
servative Labor, moderate Social- 
ism, Radicals, Direct Actionists. 

If it had not been for the war, 
and for the peculiar character of 
Lloyd George's leadership, the Con- 
servatives would not have had any 
power again. As a party they re- 
mained, but not as the old tradi- 
tional Tories of England; they be- 


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came a historic minority, like the 
Monarchists of Fiance and the 
fragmentary ConservatAves of 
Spain. 

Liberalism became the centre of 
the stage, and what was happening 
in Britain under the names Con- 
servative, Liberal and Labor was 
happening everywhere else under 
different but corresponding titles. 

There came the time when Li- 
beralism was hard put to it to fight 
off with the one hand the Conserv- 
atives, and with tho other the So- 
cialists. The result, everywhere, 
was the coalition. It happened in 
the United States as elsewhere, for 
while the Cabinet remained a party 
Cabinet, the actual corps of execu- 
tives who carried forward the war- 
activities of the nation was drawn 
from every rank and class, and was 
the most tremendous and signifi- 
cant coalition, and the truest and 
most sincere one ever known. 

The war ended, and the Coali- 


tion's reason for existence was end- 
ed, too. The war itself had served 
the dual purpose of weakening the 
life-flow of Conservatism, and 
strengthening the more liberal 
movements; in some countries 
where the tension had been strong, 
or where progress has been auto- 
cratically checked and a natural 
growth impeded as in Russia, the 
reaction was overwhelming, and 
produced revolution. In other words 
liberalism, held in a strait- jacket 
to prevent its expansion, swelled 
until it burst the jacket and, so 
released, expanded with such lack 
oc control, such tremendous growth, 
that it overstepped the limits of 
Liberalism and didn't stop until it 
reached almost the bursting point 
of Communism. 

So the Peace found a doomed 
tion through the weakness Liberals 
to its resurrected usefulness through 
a Coalition; and in Britain it found 
a leader to whom such a Coalition, 


including Conservatives, was a ne- 
cessity. But it found also a Con- 
servatism unable to stand any 
longer without a Coalition, while 
it found Liberal and Labor not yet 
ready to overthrow Coalition, but 
unwilling to compromise with it. 
The Conservatives cling to Coali- 
tion tli rough weakness; Liberals 
and Laborites defy it through a 
sense of inherent strength. 

Liberal and Labor are the two 
significant parties of the oming 
era in politics; Conservatism 
drops back to the useful minority 
position held in turn by Liberal 
and Labor and Irish Nationalism. 
Its power is done, but not its use- 
fulness. It will always bo a factor, 
occasionally and for the moment a 
determining factor — as often hap- 
pens with minorities; but it will 
not be a permanent controlling 
factor as in the past. 

The effort in Britain now is to 
shape a third party which shall 
stand where Liberalism stood be- 
fore; the difficulty is that the 
proponents of the plan differ on 
the exact position to bo occupied. 
The Tories, anxious to preserve the 
semblance of power, naturally 
favor a Centre party which shall 
stand between Liberal and Labor 
on the one hand, and the people on 
the other. 

But the Liberal supporters of the 
proposal have a different idea; they 
want to stand midway between the 
Liberals and the Laborites; they 
seek to force the Liberal party, as 
indentified with Mr. Asquith, into 
the position formerly occupied by 
the Conservatives on the right, and 
so stand between, collecting adv- 
anced Liberals from Asquith and 
moderate Laborites from Labor. 

The plan is a doubtful one. Lab- 
or itself, conservatively led, is sus- 
picious by experience. Liberalism 
has a stouter hold on the British 
public than most people realize; 
and, important token, few of the 
men so far identified with a move- 
ment for a third party, commend 
themselves to substantial citizens. 

Whatever may betide the older 
parties, or the new Centre party — 
if it comes, Labor is there to stay. 
The potential opposition today, it 
will be the actual ranking opposi- 
tioution tomorrow, and the alter- 
native government when a ministry 
shall fall. Labor has fought its 
fight alone, has nothing to gain 
from either Liberal or Conservative, 
and, moreover, knows that it is 
strong enough alone just in propor- 
tion as the older parties know they 
are weak alone. 

It may be Labor against a united 
Liberalism and modified Toryism. 
It may be Labor against Liberal- 
ism, with Toryism harassing the 
flanks of either. 

Figure if how you will, Labor is 
in. 

Translate the British struggle in- 
to the political terms of the other 
nations, and the same situation is 
reflected. Plain citizenship never 
so universally held its own. 


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THE CANADIAN RAILROADER 


April 24th, 1920 



Mem's Work Again — for Canada in 
good old Peabody s 



Are 

Almost 
Everybodys. 
Are They 
Yours? 


WALKERVlLLE :: ST. JOHN 


A SK Bill what he was doing a year ago: Building pontoon- 
bridges, chasing the fleeing Boche across the rivers he had 
held three years, straight into Hunland. You KNOW 
what Bill is doing TODAY : He is building real bridges for peace- 
time GROWTH, the commerce, the prosperity, the new happiness 
and content of Canada. And it’s a man's job. The same boys 
whom we outfitted with fighting clothes are back on the Job now 
Fighting the Bigger, Better Battle of Peace in good eld Peabodys. 
Peabody Overalls and Peabody Gloves, worn wherever there's a 
big job being done by real men 

So, Pull with Bill, Everybody — in 
good, old, honest Peabodys 

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